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What Hillary Clinton’s health means for 2016

But, even if Clinton has no long-term effects from this health scare, it will, without question, influence how she is covered if she decides to run for president in 2016. …

1. Clinton would be 69 years old if she runs in 2016. (Her birthday is Oct. 26, 1947.) That’s the same age Ronald Reagan was when he was elected president in 1980. Reagan remains the oldest person ever elected president. (John McCain was 72 when he ran — and lost — in 2008.)

2. This is the second time in the past 15 years that Clinton has had a blood clot issue. The first episode, which was significantly less serious, was in 1998 when she was treated for a blood clot in her leg. …

The simple fact is that running and serving as president is an incredibly stressful and demanding job. (There’s a reason that every president looks as though they’ve aged twice as fast as the average person when they leave the White House.) And, because of the pressures inherent in the job, one of the first hurdles any prospective nominee must clear is that he/she is ready, willing and, most importantly, able to perform the duties of the office.

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She could be held up by two people like Weekend at Bernie’s and spend 2016-2020 as a corpse in the Oval Office, it won’t matter. First of all, the media will not report on her health at all, or if they do it will be about “how healthy she looks now.” Second of all, Republicans likely won’t run anyone good enough to beat her corpse in an election.

Hollywood and the media will do everything they can to protect her, if she’s the chosen one for 2016, and there’s no reason to think that she won’t be.

I read that some guy from Korea has written a screenplay called “Rodham” about Hillary as a young woman and her romance with Bill. Sounds like just the type of thing Hollywood would grab on to to set up positive images of her for the public to see as we head into the election. There’s a whole generation that doesn’t know about the Clintons, so all they’ll know is what the media wants them to know.

If she does have any health issues, they’ll just remind everyone that Bill will be by her side and that by itself may get some people to vote for her.

Instead of worrying who the dems are going to run in 2016, the right needs candidates to step forward NOW and start running.

The right needs a real-time candidate, either a RELIABLE, conservative Republican or RELIABLE, conservative independent, to step forward NOW and start running a 24/7, minute-by-minute, 4-year campaign. The only effective way to fight back against dems is to respond to them real-time, not try to cram years worth of issues into a few short months. Sarah Palin or Allen West, for example, would be well-suited to this sort of campaign. There is no time to waste – it has to start now – start small and grow over the next four years.

Billy Jeff is looking pretty haggard. I don’t think he’ll be in any better shape in 2016. I think the more people see him and hear from him on the campaign trail, if she does run, the more people will remember his shenanigans from the 90′s. Of course, there are a heck of a lot of voters now who were babies in the 90′s and don’t know, or care to know, the sordid details of the Clinton era.

It means she’s done. No way can she run with the possibility of recurring problems like this. I don’t see her running. Besides, she doesn’t fit the winning formula. The Dems need someone of color at the top of the ticket. Race trumps gender every time and they figure they’ve got a winner with the combination they have now.